Cause baby you're just the type, I can stay up and talk to all night

All she could hear was her heartbeat and Pat Benatar warning her - Heartbreaker... love taker.

Finally he said, "You're not scared of me, are you, Victoria?"

"Scared?" she said, too loud, as if she were some parrot who could only mimic words. She shrugged, wishing she could say, No, I'm not scared of you. I'm scared of these feelings.

"Don't be scared." And he gave her that slow smile, the one she'd first seen at mini golf the night she'd celebrated her thirteenth birthday.

- Summer Sisters